Filed under: Motorsports , Sedan , Toyota , Racing Toyota recently introduced the all-new 2015 Camry for the street, so it follows that it should want to promote its new bread-and-butter sedan by putting it out on the racetrack as well. And that’s just what it’s done here with the release of the new Toyota Camry for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. The new Camry represents the first reskin of the standard stock car chassis since the Gen-6 model was introduced in 2012. Toyota’s Calty Design studio worked closely with series organizers to determine which parts could be redesigned to more closely resemble the new production model, and what you see here is the result. Since it is based on the same control chassis as all the others, the Camry’s skin is applied over a steel tube frame and powered by an old-school 5.86-liter pushrod V8 mated to a four-speed manual gearbox. Although the idea of a Japanese automaker in American stock car racing didn’t initially get the warmest reception from some of the good ol’ boys when it first entered the series back in 2007, it has by now become a staple of the NASCAR circuit. After all, it’s hard for even the most patriotic of racing fans to argue with the US-built Camry’s ranking as one of the most American cars by content on the market. Toyota Racing Development will roll out the new Camry at Daytona in February during Speedweeks, after which it will also reveal a new Camry for the second-tier Xfinity Series (currently known as the Nationwide Series). Continue reading 2015 Toyota Camry set to circle NASCAR track near you 2015 Toyota Camry set to circle NASCAR track near you originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 13 Oct 2014 08:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds .

Filed under: Motorsports , Etc. , Marketing/Advertising , Videos , Toyota , Racing The start of the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup season is just six weeks away, and the contenders are beginning to get dressed up for the battle. Joe Gibbs Racing TV shows how that’s done with a time-lapse video of Kyle Busch’s No. 18 Toyota Camry getting its bright, tailored suit of logos headed by sponsor M&Ms. Of note, the base racecar is already wrapped to look like a Camry in matte black, and we raised at least one eyebrow watching how the puzzle pieces of the top wrap get put together over the bodywork. See for yourself in the video below . Continue reading Watching Kyle Busch’s NASCAR racer get its game face on is a wrapper’s delight Watching Kyle Busch’s NASCAR racer get its game face on is a wrapper’s delight originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

Filed under: Motorsports , Sedan , Toyota , Racing NASCAR may have once been a form of motorsport in which only domestic automakers competed. And that’s largely still the case, with one notable exception: Toyota . The Japanese automaker faced some difficulty breaking into the Good Ol’ Boys racing series, but though some purists may still malign it, Toyota is in NASCAR to stay. And this is its latest car. “Based”, in design anyway, on the latest Camry , the new stock car from Toyota Racing Development is set to compete in the Sprint Cup next season, alongside the new Ford Fusion (among other competitors from Dodge and Chevy ). The result of “an aggressive redesign”, the new racer was developed with input from the company’s Calty Design studio to look more like the road-going Camry than ever before. Yes, it does bear a resemblance to its road-going cousin, especially in the fascia. That said, it’s still a composite body over a tube frame powered by a V8 engine driving the rear wheels. In other words, this is a Camry in name only. Of course it doesn’t hurt Toyota’s case that the Camry is built in America with more American components than most “domestic” vehicles, and now the stock car looks more stock, too.